CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
TOP FIFTEEN COMPETING SCHOOLS, ENTERING FRESHMEN
FALL 1996 TO 2000
BASED ON APPLICATION OVERLAP
FALL 1996 TO 2000

Rank Each Year
School 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996
Cornell 1 1 2 1 1
MIT 2 2 1 2 2
U. of Pennsylvania 3 3 3 3 3
U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor 4 17 11 21 11
Washington U. (St. Louis) 5 10 --- 7 14
Stanford 6 5 4 12 14
New York University 7 8 --- --- ---
Johns Hopkins 8 11 6 5 7
Harvard 9 4 13 9 6
Princeton 10 6 10 4 5
Northwestern 11 7 5 5 4
U. of CA, Berkeley 12 13 14 23 ---
Columbia 13 9 7 14 10
Penn State 14 12 15 11 9
Brown 15 16 12 13 8
BASED ON ADMITTANCE OVERLAP

 Rank Each Year
School 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996
Penn State 1 1 4 7 2
U. Michigan - Ann Arbor 2 --- 11 11 5
Washington U. (St. Louis) 3 3 14 5 7
New York 4 4 8 10 8
Johns Hopkins 5 7 6 3 10
Northwestern 6 8 12 14 11
Cornell 7 5 1 1 1
U. of CA, Berkeley 8 9 --- --- ---
Columbia 9 12 --- --- ---
U. of Pennsylvania 10 10 10 8 13
Brown 11 --- --- --- ---
MIT 12 11 7 6 12
Stanford 13 13 --- --- ---
Harvard 14 14 --- --- ---
Princeton 15 15 --- --- ---
Note:  Overlap refers to the number of applicants or admittees who applied or were admitted to
Carnegie Mellon and one of the other schools listed.